Sasha is taking up to six pills a day for her heart now – Vetmedin and Frudix in the morning, again in the evening plus Fortekor and a heart worm tablet. The vet actually suggested we could stop giving her the heart worm pills, since she doesn’t believe Sash will live long enough for it to ever become a problem 🙁 but H reckons that is just being pessimistic, and as long as it doesn’t harm her to keep taking them, we shall keep giving it to her.
With all these pills it was becoming difficult to get them all down her little throat. The vet suggested crushing them, mixing with honey and smearing around Sasha’s mouth so she would lick it off. That idea didn’t really appeal to us. Then H hit on the brilliant idea to wrap the pills in leftover mashed potato, and it works amazingly well.
Sasha loves it. She used to spit the pills out all the time when we tried to get them down her throat, but now we just offer her the mashed potato ball (with pills inside) and she gobbles it up, no problem!
Hi Liss,
Disguising the pills that Sash has to take in mashed potato is a clever idea.